some kind of mail() problem

[enchance]

I made an email form "contact.php" which makes use of the code below in a separate php file "mail.php"

but I just can't get it to work. I'm kinda new to php. 

 

<?
//assign the constants
$agiemail = "[email protected]";
$aginame = "AGI";
$inittxt = "WEB: ";

//get the values
$sender = $_POST['fName'];
$subject = $_POST['fSubject'];
$email = $_POST['fEmail'];
$phone = $_POST['fPhone'];
$msg = $_POST['fMessage'];
$checkbox = $_POST['fCheckbox'];
$date = date("l, F j, Y"); 
$time = date("h:i A"); 

//*****The error must be somewhere in the code below*****
$header =
	"To: " . $aginame . "<" . $agiemail . ">\n" .
	"Subject: " . $inittext . $subject . "\n" .
	"From: " . $sender . "<" . $email . ">\n" .
	"X-Mailer: PHP 4.x";

$message = 
	"\n**This message was sent from the AGI website**\n\n\n" .
	"Sender: " . $sender . "<" . $email . ">\n" .
	"Date: " $date . " " . $time . "\n" .
	"Reply by phone: " . $checkbox . "\n" .
	"Telephone: " . $phone . "\n\n" .
	$subject . "\n" . $msg;

//send the mail + error messages
if(mail($agiemail, $subject, $message, $header))
{
 header('Location: sent.php');
}
else
{
header('Location: emailnotsent.php');
}
?>

 

I keep getting the error message in my browser:

 

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_VARIABLE in D:\xampp\htdocs\agi\_snippets\php\mail.php on line 25

 

Can you guys tell me what I'm doing wrong? I'm running it on localhost using the latest version of xamp. This is my first time working on php.

[enchance]

I saw a problem and changed it which kind of fixed it but now I'm getting another problem:

 

Edited line:

"Date: " . $date . " " . $time . "\n" .
//forgot the "." before $date

 

New problem:

Warning: mail() [function.mail]: Failed to connect to mailserver at "localhost" port 25, verify your "SMTP" and "smtp_port" setting in php.ini or use ini_set() in D:\xampp\htdocs\agi\_snippets\php\mail.php on line 31

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at D:\xampp\htdocs\agi\_snippets\php\mail.php:31) in D:\xampp\htdocs\agi\_snippets\php\mail.php on line 37 

 

What could this be?

[darkfreaks]

at the top of the page put ob_start();

 

this will help with the output headers.

[enchance]

It occurred to me, is it possible I don't have a mail server configured? I opened up php.ini but I can't make heads of what's in it.

[darkfreaks]

read up on ini_set you need to output it using ini_set not header